We are always trying to come up with new ways to make improvements to Trinity-on-Main, to ensure that we have a consistent representation of what our goal is for this organization.

With that said, I am very happy to announce that in the next couple of weeks we will be making some much needed improvements in order to keep things fresh and up to date.

The Website:

We have been working on a much needed complete makeover for our website. Our goal is make it more user friendly and easier to navigate, all while updating outdated content as well as getting rid of unnecessary content. We are working on cleaning it up, to give it a simple, seamless look. Be sure to look for the announcement of our new and improved website in just a few short weeks.

Social Media:

As most may know, Trinity-on-Main can be found on both Facebook and Twitter, but we have decided to expand our social media reach and we have just joined Instagram! Our goal is to be able to feature photos of upcoming shows, performances in action, as well as the beautiful architecture of our historic theater and building. If you have Instagram, you can follow us at @trinityonmain!

We are very excited to implement some of these necessary changes, and we hope to only continue our improvements to ensure the success of Trinity-on-Main!

Trinity-on-Main would like to congratulate the newest member of our family, Zoe Vandermeer for winning 3rd place (tie) as well as earning a special citation for vocal and instrumental excellence in the in the women's opera divisions of The American Prize in Vocal Performance—Friedrich & Virginia Schorr Memorial Awards.

As a professional opera singer, composer, songwriter, baroque harpist and Celtic harpist, Zoe is also a prize-winning graduate of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

She is the winner of the Bay Area Vocal Competition, Finalist in the London Young Artists Early Music Competition, and recipient of the Dame Joan Sutherland Fund, Emerging Artists Fund, and the MTNA Foundation Grant Fund.

As a soloist with orchestras and opera companies and as a singing harpist, Ms. Vandermeer performs internationally, is on the roster of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, and has been a featured guest on numerous radio shows in the US and Scotland. Her solo voice/baroque triple harp album 'Angel's Wine, the Songs of John Dowland' won 2nd place for Best Classical Album by JPF international songwriting organization and her new voice/Welsh triple harp album featuring the music of Mozart, Handel, and 18th century Welsh harpist Richard Jones is slated for release this Winter.

Ms. Vandermeer is also an accomplished on-location classical recording engineer and producer; she has written for Classical Singer Magazine, and given presentations at the Classical Singer Conventions in New York City and Philadelphia, with audio and video clients including the Jensen Foundation Vocal Competition, Bedford Chamber Concerts, State Farm Insurance, Sonos Handbell Ensemble, Chelsea Opera, New York Consort of Viols, numerous opera singers, and the Institute for American Indian Studies. As a music director, she has directed for theatre companies in the Bay Area and Connecticut, as well as having extensive experience as a church choral director/organist in Connecticut and New York.

Zoe Vandermeer has been providing professional vocal and piano instruction for children and adults for many years. Her young students as well as adult students can often be seen in lead roles and as soloists on Connecticut stages dedicated to musical theatre, rock, pop, classical, singer songwriter, and jazz. We could not be more thrilled to have Zoe and her organization, The Successful Voice Studio, as a part of the Trinity-on-Main team!

All of us at Trinity-on-Main would like to offer our sincerest congratulations to Zoe on all of her success and wish her nothing but continued success in the future!

If you would like more information about Zoe, or the professional services she offers through her organization, The Successful Voice, please visit www.thesuccessfulvoice.com

As things slow down here for the summer we would like to bring toyour attention some great organizations that make their home atTrinity-on-Main.About Queen Ann Nzinga Center:The Queen Ann Nzinga Center is one of four arts organization thatcurrently calls Trinity-on-Main home. They hold their meetings,classes, rehearsals and events here at T-o-M and also maintain anoffice in our Chestnut St building.The Queen Ann Nzinga Center, Inc.,founded in 1989, is an umbrella organization with two programmingdivisions; Nzinga’s Watoto which houses the Center’s youth groupprograms, and Nzinga’s Daughters, which houses the Center’scommunity cultural education programs.

Youth Programs:These programs are designed to build self-esteem, enhance lifeskills, and foster creativity in an environment that celebratesdiversity and provides inter-generational mentoring. The Fall programfocuses on working together to acquire the skills (performance andpersonal) and discipline to stage a multi-faceted, multi-act Kwanzaacelebration show. Kwanzaa is an African American cultural holidaythat promotes 7 principles: unity, self-determination, collectiveworks and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity,and faith. The Fall program runs from September to the December 29thKwanzaa performance.

The Trinity-on-Main Gala was a huge success! We made a lot of money to help support our cause and everyone said they had a great time! Thanks so much to Linda Klopp and the Gala Committee and all of you who attended and donated!!

The Annual Gala goes Carribean this year with "A Night in the Carribean" on June 9th. We will have a live steel drum band playing, will have a silent auction and a live auction (hosted by WTIC's Ray Dunaway) and food with a tropical flair by Michael's Catering.